By popular demand, Fukua added to the roster as a bonus character with no DLC requirements. She will be forever free because she’s forever a clone! Find her somewhere on the character select screen (if you can).

New stage added: Nightmare Crest. An alternate version of Maplecrest featuring “The Dreams We Left Behind”, a remix version of “The Lives We Left Behind” background theme. Fukua should be right at home!

The Glass Canopy stage now has its own original background theme, “Royal Canopy Waltz”.

All red cross imagery has been changed such that it no longer resembles the American Red Cross logo. This mostly concerns Valentine, who now has pink shurikens in her default costume. Ileum in the Lab 8 stage has also been changed, as well as various alternate palettes for Valentine and Parasoul. More information here.

Fixed a major bug that permanently locked DLC alternate color palettes and prevented DLC characters from being selected outside of Story Mode (XBL version).

“COMPLETE!” will no longer show up on wrong characters or the random square when moving too fast on the Story Mode character select screen.

When playing online, character select timeouts while hovering over an already chosen character or a locked stage will no longer hang.

Character icons are now highlighted when the cursor is over them on the character select screen

Fixed online character select hangs when the timer expires when highlighting an already-chosen character or locked stage

Added missing names to Credits/Contributors list

Gameplay Changes

Lockout period for tagging and calling Ensemble Attacks when your assist character gets hit by an Outtake changed to 300f as originally intended.

Assist characters don’t start healing until 120f after the end of a lockout.

360 motions now allow up to 2f of neutral between required direction inputs. Helps keyboard players and hitbox users.

Assist characters will now always do their post-assist taunt as long as they didn’t go into hitstun, including armored assists. Armored assists that are touched and don’t go into hitstun will still get locked out for the normal period.

Certain Blockbusters (Argus Agony, Death Crawl) will no longer give a small amount of meter back to the attacker on hit. Thanks to negus_eyoel.